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Commit 4ddf8ab8 authored by Larry Finger's avatar Larry Finger Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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staging: rtl8188eu: Fix potential overuse of kernel memory


In routine wpa_supplicant_ioctl(), the user-controlled p->length is
checked to be at least the size of struct ieee_param size, but the code
does not detect the case where p->length is greater than the size
of the struct, thus a malicious user could be wasting kernel memory.
Fixes commit a2c60d42 ("Add files for new driver - part 16").

Reported by: Pietro Oliva <pietroliva@gmail.com>
Cc: Pietro Oliva <pietroliva@gmail.com>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes commit a2c60d42 ("Add files for new driver - part 16").
Signed-off-by: default avatarLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200210180235.21691-4-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent ac33597c
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